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Team Diversity and Team Performance – A Special Report

Contents Common perception that team diversity is goodTwo types of explanation for diverse team performanceThe Categorisation-Elaboration ModelDeep and surface diversity15 conditions Common perception that team diversity is goodThere is a pretty ubiquitous modern common perception that team diversity in terms of nationality, race, age and/or gender, is a wholly positive team attribute and that team […]

#Diversity #Team diversity #team performance #teams

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Sleepiness at work: does alertness management training actually work?

The issue of sleepiness at work is a serious one in many professions. People feeling sleepy, or actually falling asleep at work, can have serious health and safety consequences, but also lowers productivity and can cause a range of other issues to do with a lack of focus, engagement and work absorption. Sleepiness at work […]

#alertness management training #learning #learning and development #on duty sleepiness #organisational learning #shift workers #shifts #sleepiness

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Just how valid is the idea of emotional intelligence?

As mentioned in a previous blogs, interest in emotional intelligence is a relatively recent phenomenon. With the exception of a small blip of interest at the end of the Second World War, emotional intelligence has only really come to prominence in terms of research since the 1990s. Emotional intelligence, however, isn’t one construct, […]

#emotion recognition #emotion regulation #emotional intelligence #reliability #validity

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The Principled Leadership Scale – Interview / podcast

Introduction Principled leadership is essential in todays environment. Issues like the Enron scandal (where the Chief Executive was found guilty of 18 counts of fraud, conspiracy and insider trading) and the VW emissions scandal (where technology was used to cheat emissions testing protocol and a range of other scandals) show that unethical and unprincipled decision-making […]

#interview #Leadership #Podcast #principled leadership

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Why organisations are having problems using big data – research interview

More and more organisations are turning to big data to inform their decision-making. However, they are finding that all is not well when they try to use big data in this way and as a result frequently get disappointing results and end up abandoning the exercise or worse end up making bad decisions as a […]

#big data #Data diagnosticity #data quality #decision-making #decision-making quality #organisational decision-making

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Job crafting: How to get people engaged with it – new study

How to get people engaged with job crafting

Job crafting has been found to be a productive employee activity, but there are problems with getting people engaged with it. New research looks at how to get employees engaged with job crafting. The idea of job crafting The three facets of job crafting A new study Findings The idea of job crafting One […]

#cognitive crafting #Job crafting #job satisfaction #P-J fit #performance #person-job fit #relational crafting #task crafting

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How people with higher levels of psychological entitlement stop others getting promoted

When people start to feel entitled or that they believe they have the right to things that others don’t (known as psychological entitlement) in an organisation things can get difficult. When people with a sense of psychological entitlement get to positions of power and authority, things can get pretty hard and perverse for everyone else. […]

#authority #control #norms #psychological entitlement #rule breaking #rules #social norms

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Developing organisational ambidexterity and the implications for HR, Org Dev and L&D

One of the big themes emerging from the management and organisational development literature at the moment is that of organisational ambidexterity. A problem that has dogged many organisations is how to continue to exploit its existing capabilities whilst at the same time developing and exploring new ones. Podcast Transcript Employee characteristics Leadership characteristics HR and […]

##HR #Human Resources #learning and development #organisational ambidexterity #organisational development

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The Characteristics of a successful Management Mentor – podcast

Mentors have long played a significant role in the development of individuals within organisations. One of the more successful approaches to management mentoring has been inter-organisational schemes where mentors from other organisations help new and developing leaders and managers to get to grips with their role and to see things from different perspectives. Mentoring Management […]

#management mentor #management mentoring #mentor #mentoring

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Story selling – The art and power of persuasion using authentic stories

Story selling – The art and power of persuasion using authentic stories. Being able to persuade or sell to others effectively is a core part of many people’s occupation and position. For example, leaders need to persuade followers, managers need to persuade employees to do things or change for example and, generally, many people are […]

#authentic stories #authenticity #persuasion #persuasive communication #selling #stages of selling #stories #story-telling

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